The American Health Care Act has passed the House of Representatives, as you may have heard, and that means Republicans are one very big step closer to repealing Obamacare. But here’s the strange thing: Almost nobody seems to like the legislation very much, and that includes many if not most of the 217 House Republicans who said “aye” to it Thursday. “The amazing thing is, I really don’t think Republicans writ large believe in what they just passed,” HuffPost congressional reporter Matt Fuller says in a new episode of the “Candidate Confessional” podcast. What did they do to get it through the House, after the bill seemed dead? In this special, off-season episode of “Candidate Confessional,” Fuller joins senior politics editor Sam Stein, along with policy writers Jeffrey Young and Jonathan Cohn, to answer these questions.

Source: Huffington Post May 05, 2017 23:48 UTC